Monday Musings!

I meant to post this yesterday, Sunday, but it just didn't happen! Saturday was a beautiful day here in NYC! A perfect summer day, warm with a breeze and NO humidity. Loved it! I had to spend some time outside. I went to a local outdoor flea market. There were several booths with interesting and cool jewelrys, a booth selling beautiful Sri Lankan handmade dark brown rattan bags with intricate beading design around the opening and lotsof t-shirts and many different booths with delicious food, such as Red Hook Lobster Rolls, BBQ, Grilled Cheese and yummy milk shakes. It was great fun and really interesting people watching! Of course there was a book booth (yay!)! Mostly fiction, a little non-fiction and all paperbacks. Since I have a large pile of to books to read, I managed to restrict myself to purchasing 3 books, but Oh Boy! was it tough to decide which 3! I went home with: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and Water Music by T.C. Boyle. I hope I get to them sooner rather than later!

The cats were thrilled with the weather this weekend. They were running inside, outside and back again, rolling on their backs in the grass, especially Betsy, Sadie, Bob and Huxley and playing with cat toys, bottle caps, pieces of grass and balls, lots of balls (Dopey and Hennessey prefer sitting on the windowsill and watch all the goings-on!). When finally exhausted, the cats collapsed in any bit of sun they could find. They are all so adorable and fun...funny too!

I wasn't getting much reading done for several weeks and definitely not as much posting or blog visiting as I'd like. I was in the hospital for a few days with pneumonia. When I got home, I slept a lot which shortened my day and my reading time, especially when 30 minutes into a book I was snoring away! I'm slowly getting back into the swing of blogging again! I feel like I've had a blog for a while but just when I felt really comfortable with it all, I had to step away from blogging for a few months. I'll catch up! I want to post, I want to visit other blogs, participate in read-a-longs, interview authors, offer giveaways ...there are so many great things to do around here! I'm way behind on reviews. I have a handful of almost completed reviews waiting for me to finish them. I'll probably just take a day and work on reviews and only reviews!

Infinite Jest, which I've beeen reading for little more than a week now, is great! It's a little odd but interesting and funny! The more I read, the better it gets! I think it's going to take me a long time to read it! I'm also reading On Folly Beach by Karen White and hopefully Cleo by Helen Brown, I can't wait to read this book! I also hope to post reviews for Whiter Than Snow and my interview with Sandra Dallas too! I hope to post my reviews for Beth Kephart's The Heart is Not a Size and One Day by David Nicholls.

Have a great week!